Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You

By Richard O'Connor

Book Overview

The bestselling approachable guide that has inspired thousands of readers to manage or overcome depression -- fully revised and updated for life in the 21st century. Depression rates around the world... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425166791
• ISBN13: 9780425166796
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 1.0" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Positive

Haven’t finished it yet butttttt Does anyone so far a great book

One of the best books on depression

Once in a while you come across a book on a very important subject that actually makes sense from the first page to the last page ... and this is one of these books. If you've suffered from depression or are currently depressed or perhaps depression by a loved one or a co-worker has affected you, then this book will help. How? Well, it shows that many depressive trends are based on thought patterns and the author analyses how depression develops and continues to hunt individuals throughout their lives. Then the author offers effective solutions how to avoid such trends and change traps that may lead to depression. Another book that I found extremely helpful and which also focuses on behavioral patterns as well as the roots of depression and solutions to avoid it and be healed from depression is Dietmar Scherf's I LOVE ME: Avoiding & Overcoming Depression.

A must-read for a depressive or his/her family

O'Connor is one of the best writers on depression I've read in 30 years as both a mental health professional and a sufferer. He weaves together research, theory, case examples and his own experience with depression in such a warm, down-to -earth way that reading this on depressed days, I am comforted that it really IS possible to undo depression. Self-help exercises are included. His main point -- that whatever "official" therapy we take in terms of counseling or medication, change is really about noticing our depressive thought and behavior patterns and working to change them, is what it's all really about in my experience. He acknowledges the pain and hard work in this -- again, one of the unique aspects of his writing is its warmth and tone of friendship and fellowship for the journey.